Fox News reporting that Sandra Day O'Connor retiring!

Fox News | 7/1/05 | SueRae

[tm22721]

Whomever is nominated will be borked.

BUMP

[You Dirty Rats]

I doubt the President would elevate a current Justice when Rehnquist retires. Why on earth would he want one more confirmation battle than he needs? For that matter, why would either Scalia or Thomas put themselves through that? Other than assigning the writing of opinions, presiding over the impeachment of a President, and prestige, the Chief Justice slot means no more than any other Justice.

[AliVeritas]

Works for me. I know Mich News loves them.

[xsmommy]

well let him put his rep on the line, keeping that in place, and he will finally perform a service instead of being a burr in our butts.

[yellowdoghunter]

But if it were true that everything had to be 100% "our way," very few of us would still be Republicans.

Excellent post....I get the feeling some people resent our pull in the party.

[Peach]

McCain trying to preserve his legacy; he's delusional if he thinks there won't be a filibuster. If it's a conservative appointment, it will be filibustered, imo.

[SittinYonder]

McCain on Fox saying he thinks "the agreement" will HOLD and there won't be a filibuster!

McCain is an idiot. When he was a POW the Soviets planted a chip in his head to control his mind, and sometime in the mid-1990s they turned it on.

(conspiracy theory provided by eyespysomething)

[JustAnAmerican]

Just as an FYI,The following is taken directly from NCLR(National Council of La Raza)'s website,

Murguia also noted Gonzales’ ties to the Hispanic community throughout his career. “Alberto Gonzales served with distinction on the board of directors of one of NCLR’s oldest and most respected affiliates, the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans (AAMA) in Houston, Texas. Moreover, during his tenure as White House Counsel, he has been one of the most accessible members of the White House staff to NCLR and other Hispanic organizations,” added Murguia.

And as usual The link (if you can stomach NCLR), This and his Anti-Gun stance is all I need to know about Gonzales.

[GoldwaterChick]

I don't know anything about Edith Brown--you're the expert here. I have a feeling W already knows who he will be nominating, he's just going to let the Dems and Msm "misunderestimate" him! Just as he went along with looking for a VP--and chose Dick Cheney. He probably had him in mind all along. It will be fun to watch the Dems in hysterics and "demanding" to have a say.

[tellw]

Doesn't the Chief Justice get a higher salary?

[AliVeritas]

While I was thinking Arf, Arf, Arf...grrrrr...Arf.

[OESY]

Why so tough?

Why will replacing O'Connor be such a bitter partisan struggle? And why is it so important to replace her with a reliable conservative? Many people know about her rumored in-chambers 1992 decision to change her vote in Casey v. Planned Parenthood, which saved Roe. But consider some more recent decisions in which she served as a swing vote.

Stenberg v. Carhart (2000): O'Connor abandons Kennedy, Scalia, Thomas and the Chief to strike down Nebraska's ban on partial-birth abortion.

Lawrence v. Texas (2003): O'Connor and Kennedy provide the swing votes to rule that Texas cannot constitutionally outlaw sodomy. Many scholars fear that this decision sets the stage for the Supreme Court to creat homosexual "marriage" in the near future.

Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger (2003): O'Connor's schizophrenic swing vote results in a split-the-baby approach to race-based preferences at public universities.

McCreary County v. ACLU (2005): O'Connor provided the fifth vote to hold that some public displays of the Ten Commandments violate the Establishment Clause.

-- ajmac, fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/

[You Dirty Rats]

Probably, but I doubt that will be a factor in the President's decision.

[Peach]

BTW, if you haven't guessed, I fall the in the Conservative Republican mold that understands you don't always get everything you want but you keep on trying and never fold up your tent and go home. If I was the type to fold a tent, I would have left this site in recent months but I have chosen to stay and fight the naysayers and doom and gloomers that are now populating this site. They have risen from the ashes of 2000 to be joined by newbies or at least new screen names from 2004.

Well said, PhiKapMom. I fall in your camp as well. We get angry and disappointed, but we never give up.

[onyx]

Man oh man, John just couldn't wait to get his face out there early. MAYBE this is a good thing... a shot across the bow... like a warning to dems.

[AliVeritas]

Not as long as we have their emails, numbers and fax.

When shall we start FReeping...now?

[68 grunt]

Oh, the simile is ripe ~

[SittinYonder]

This and his Anti-Gun stance is all I need to know about Gonzales

Do you have a link to his anti-gun stance. This is the first time I've heard of this. Thanks.

[Peach]

Why am I thinking about Clarence Thomas's nomination process so much today? Whoever it is, they'd better be ready for the entire family to be ripped apart by democratic smears and lies.

[SittinYonder]

To avoid looking like whackos, we may want to wait for the nomination. But then, by all means, telephone hourly, email and drop faxes and letters daily. This is why God made constituents - we've got to fight for this. And we need to call the Dems, too, not just the Republicans and raise h-e-double-hockeysticks with them, too!